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    About Beating Apple to the Punch

    December 11th, 2014

    There’s something perfectly boring about hearing a statement that some company has beaten Apple to the punch by releasing a certain product or feature. But it’s not as if Apple is first to market with most of their new gear. So the Mac wasn’t the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, and the […]


    Now About the Alleged Reasons for the iPad Sales Slowdown

    December 8th, 2014

    There has been no end of speculation as to why iPad sales, once soaring, are down slightly this year. True, Apple has recorded tens of millions of sales of the first truly successful tablet computer, but are the glory days over? Aside from the reasons why this might be so, it’s unfortunate that the industry […]


    Make it Big, But Not Too Big

    December 4th, 2014

    Ahead of the release of the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus phablet, you could hear the howls from the media critics. Apple is losing out on millions and millions of sales by not joining the bigger smartphone party. When Apple VP Philip Schiller one year demonstrated how you could use a four-inch iPhone […]


    The Living-in-Ignorance Report

    November 26th, 2014

    As I look over the history of this blog, dating back to 1999, I find that I’ve covered some subjects over and over. No, not because my memory isn’t quite as sharp as it used to be. My feeling, instead, is that a lot of tech commentators choose to forget or are so busy regurgitating silly […]